Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-30
UNDESIRABLE EMIGRANTS
SENATOR PALMER EXPLAINS THE
 NATURE OF HIS BILL.

Mormouism Would Die Out if Not Fed
 by Foreign Accessions-Intelligent and
 Industrious Aliens win Not bc Ex-
 cluded-The Hungarian Method.
 DETROIT, Dec 30.-Senator Palmer, who spending the holiday recess at his home in ;his city, was asked yesterday to explain the features of the bill introduced by him in the Ienate just before adjournment, imposing restrictions upon immigration.
 Senators Merrill; Farwell, Reagan and myself, have each introduced a bill in con- yress," said he, ''designed to restrict the evils attending immigration to this country. They are similar in scope, but mino differs rom the others in that it includes pro vision for the exclusion of Mormon prose ytes. A recent writer-I believe in The North American Review-takes the position that Mormonis,n would completely die out were it not fed by immigration, and be ieve thnt he is right It has been found iifRcult to frame bill that would exclude Ill objectionable clements and at the same lime be perfectly satisfactory in other re- poets; but a bill that will exclude some ror- lions of the undesirable immigrants marks . progressive step.
 ''It is not the purpose to exclude or impede he admission of good classes of immigrants, put only such as are unable to get certificates of character entitling them to permits from our consuls abroad. It has been said by come one that the system of consular certifi- sates is insufficient, but if he will read the 'eports of those of our representatives sta- ioned in Hungary and other countries where careful surveillance is needed, he will see that they appreciate the fact that people are ,ent to this country whom we do not want In my bill the modus operandi is left, measurably, to the secretary of state, who, if he finds one system not stringent enough, may adopt another. In a word, the bill is desired as an entering wedge for legislation which will be added as the sxigencies of the times may demand. From these circular reports to which have re- ferred one can learn that men marry in Hun gary upon an express stipulation that they go to America and earn enough money with which to return and support their families This, it will be readily seen, is everything but conducive to the welfare of this country.
 "There is also class of immigrants com ing to the United States whose wants and aspirations are far below those of American laborers, with whom they come in compe- tition, and whom they compel to accept lower wages or starve. This bill is an im- portant step in the direction of a cure for this evil
 Existing laws would be sufficient, pos ;ibly, if confined to German, Scandinavian, Irish, English and Scotch immigration, but we are now drawing largely from source 0: supply bordering upon the slave popula- tion of Europe; people who are hardly more homogeneous with ours than the Chinese. The proposition of this bill is to invest the state department with such powers in regard to minutise or detail in its application as will enable it each year to draw the reins closer, and render 1t more undesirable for these objectionable people to seek foothold in this country"